Show EDI edl TO R THE FAMILY JAMILY LIFE tim THE most mot widely talked of theological i orator in ili this country ia Is rev joseph cook he has been delighting the pedants of boston for a long time with lectures of a beligio scientific character which couched in language frequently obscure obscured but sometimes forcible and eloquent i are the subject of censure from orthodox divines and the object of ridicule rid aidule for plain spoken and sturdy sceptics tIcA but the gentleman occasionally says some very arld arid hiff in trying to reconcile the facts of science with the of theology brak down the walls walla of unbelief un beliet bellef whick are becoming higher and stronger bt shutting outtie out the light of re and estranging men further from their maker is worthy 0 of all commendation even if his style is objectionable and his attitude rather egotistical hilone hundred d and first lecture at boston huston wa waa one ota of a serles series on 11 marriage arriage Nl life and his topic to pic pie on alit that occasion the ii infidel attack n the Far ear bamily family nily in this thia he took occasion to array army against ern era ree lovers some bome of the matrons matrona of ancient heathendom and to contra contrast sf the loose ideas of the former with the chaste devotion to their husbands of the latter he showed that the voice of nature speaks f tor for the family relation lation rp and curbes curses curses the boid bold infidelity and false religion rell reli loii which seek beek to destroy ilip condition I 1 vi iii dealing side sidd blows at philosophy arsand systems W to the he family fa mily life be he makes mention of louches touches slightly on polygamy and eind in speaking of its de defelica felico by german material fats he intimates that their lives would furnish ji a sufficient reply to theli theories this is a very slim siim and Lin tenable untenable argument for area a rea boner honer like joseph cooke if mono gamy were to be judged by of ot mandof many of its strenuous defender defenders sit sio it would have but a insinuations without proof against the persona personal 1 I characters of philosophers should have havo weight with janose who wish to arrive at the truth thith ort oft Weir meir philosophy bu but t mr couke cooke ilke like ilk jik many others other who dilate upon the subject of the marriage relation seems to entertain the idea tl that polygamy may q classed with systems and theo ed to the family luj ufa lie he could not be more mor mistaken it r is supposed that ifa if la man lids ha smore mord wives thann oni one those tender vs which bind the heart of to the husband anid and the parents to the children are dissolved that the blessed home and its associations are diesi dissipated and that the chaste dd delights lights and holy the family circle that teva teca equally to loster virtue and und prevent vice are unknown gamab households arnd arid belong only to 10 the dwelling places of mono gamy people merel clump conclusion they beg the quest question on and build 4 arguments upon it wah wih out the truth or orial falsity sity of premises eneta prove that their assumptions are incorrect and df if testimony in this regard ignot is not to be admitted there is nothing in the nature of favors the necessity of their position Tp To ereis no reason why w mii ili y a lov iov loving ing truthful protecting prote Wrig husband and father should become less so 0 with the caret care of two families than with one if marl mari were lo 10 practice plural ramify family lations de le in fi secret ebret striving to hide bide froni from one family his connect ioria with another the very act dat of dol doi doing ng so would corrode his nature and cor rupt bupt the fountains of his being but if it his position IM Is mutually un and sustained nedi this cause of evil has no texi lexi existence stence A man who can extend the goodness of his soul to morp corp than one household devoting himself to the care culture and permanent good of all loses none ot the qualities which tit fit him bhim tb abe be the head of tho the family but on the contrary they theys by the very nature of things increase ada and become if all the christian virtue virtues cluster round the family circle and d end to make mako the father lather and husband Us band bana trong equaled patient industrious atey ates aud and jieh the extending of his family responsibilities should multiply the incentives to all that alsgood is good aud and eq en obling landmake and make him h doubly doubis kr great eat and anil admirable wo know that eliere here are faini families lies in nhi util under the poly toly system in which all ali the graces andre and refinements fine ments of feell feeling ng and und of bf act which can possibly beautify any 10 household exist and aap abound ia d ahad abd bring forth the fiti fraits fruits af virtue ad arid of peace where the mothers mothie i rs doat upon their loufik offspring and are as devoted doted to their thel r common husband guide gulde and provider ya 7 any Gre grecian clatt clait ma matron trond 0 t roman r wife wire who has ever in the history of nations and where the vir virtuous t u 0 a ig stands ilke like d patriarch att at tee T 6 head hid ot of his household of all under his hig bee vee seeding kin th their air moral spiritual and aud physical chi culture and A gieir ail all the th bebless blessed influences which make home sacred and the family the nursery of or virtue virttie and integrity plural marriage conducted a as cording to the Mor mormon piau plan is essentially a family compact increasing creasing extending arnd arid strength ening the ties of family and of home borne if the father ather has more home homes s than one ong his temporary absence destroys neither of them any more than thab the od occasional caslo ilai ilal abse absence ripe of the monogamous husband whose business calls him periodically away away destroys his single p home ome 0 or r its ats influences the plural husband ia is more of a famil than the monogamous and arid if there is apy ahng in id ahe care of on ei amily thia th t I 1 makes h a man better bettel the care of more families should ill increase irease the icausi and multiply the effects atit if it be bb argued that there arebald are bad polygamists anit and unhappy ably gammie garnic it may just as ai truthfully truthful lybe lse shown tuat that ana there are monogamists and wretched monogamist h hoUse hoube hoida horda isolated vases cases cases form no proof and instances which may be pointed out allover all ali over this territory of poly gamio amio amic hou bou house boue e holds where all the benefits ot ta the family relation are enjoyed and cultivated show that the ideas of mr bir cooke antip and others who assume the position that family life is destroyed by polygamy of or that any of bf the evils or of free freelove love iove can dan be attributed tri buted to plural marriage are as far from the truth as the virtue of panthea and the devotion of pho clones wife are from the license of oueida oneida and the looseness of victoria woodhull L THE great foroe FORCE DEVELOPs I 1 I 1 ing ting k J goes by the name of f electricity is ls or soon boon wiil will b be e the I 1 areat areat force fore of the tho ige age age the bhide development ivol ivel of the telegraph manes manifested ed P q of its power the chau chan change go wrought by its use was only a forerunner ot greater irions dons to come affecting all ill nati nations ois and working out the e purposes e s of jehovah 11 the next great benefit to be bd con furred upon mankind by electricity appears to be in tiie tile afie an hu the reign of gaa gas and thu the domi dominion plon of kerosene will soon poon be over and the tha electria light will I 1 supersede L all ali other artificial luminaries the ancient candle candie jaspat is feeble and unclean modern gas is flickering hurtfuL ltd lid to the eyes and expensive coal oil is dangerous stinking aud and insufficient the new electric light successfully in info into paris is clearer purer cheap cheaper g r safer healthier and far jar brighter than all IL It shines through steam and fog and does not vitiate the atmosphere there is no dan ger of fire from its nse me and I 1 it can na now be produced cedat at half the tha price of gis gas load london on and paris have the honor of the first inventions to produce the electric light wt but yankee ingenuity is sure to improve upon the conceptions of european genius already an american mining engineer L L r has patented amente d a machine antu an and lamp that are free from the principal pal pai objections against again other apparatus the electric candles so much talked about are very brilliant but they are als also overy very ex peb pensive sive the machines of gramme of paris and siemens of london baye the defect of becoming heated when their maximum amount of highl Is the american machine and add lamp jamp appear to be safe eafe safey cheap and able abie ble blo to produce a strong light hout heat beat and to 16 baye recommendations othen other likely to bring them into peculiar favor other apparatus will no doubt be constructed which will be an improvement upon everything yet brought forth pa and by jy and by darkness will ili III be dissipated in the realms rhal of civilization and all the chief places of the earth will be lit it udby up by radiations from the surrounding atmosphere we believe that steam will follow gas into the shade when the powers power of electricity are farther developed that thit electricity will become the great motive power on land anid arid sea bea A smokeless kIess kless scent scentless lessi lessl noiseless force foree elean clean controllable economical and of boundless energy its nature properties A per ties uses luses ang ancl anil da capabilities a are re vet yet but lit lif little tle ile understood but they will be gr gradually dually unfolded as the great author of ilfe life and light s sees eps wise wie the progress of our 1 race requires a and lid rid the he dispels dispensation 1 ati on of the tho eulnia s of lim tim its gorious accomplishment ashment THE SUFFRAGE QUESTION I 1 epst newspaper readers in 1 1 ameri caare exare familiar with the name manic I 1 of Mis julla Julia ta E smith of ot bury she i a one odthe ladies who made themselves famous by their resistance to t the he payment of taxes on the ground that they could not be forced to pay taxes while deprived p ived aved r of ok the to yote vote arguing I 1 ng that taxation without representation is contrary to thelmarit the spirit lArit of amerlean american institutions of course bhe ehe failed tailed in til the c courts ourt I 1 because suffrage und under erthe the constitution and laws jaws of the united states is not a right inherent in the citi citizen zeni miss smith continues to tight light the tax collector and con cou considers sIders herself dreadfully persecuted although the ladys ladya name Is well known I 1 everybody is not aware that she is 83 3 y years ears old and a smart active woman like most persons who become notorious in this country abe she has taken to the lecture field and discourses eloquently upon taxa i tion without representation addiss smith an dother and other ladies who wh 0 battle for what they call their rights are tobe to be admired for their bravery bavery and pers perg everence even though hough bough they are sometimes a little off offitt in their arguments it would bo be well for the advocates of woman suffrage to avoid untenable assumptions which only expose their causa coat taek and weaken the tha positions which they can pyo lerty perty bend ve notice in the boon adder Adeer Id vertis lisen an article on the right of suffrage 11 in which i the fallacy of the claim of tha the n na a tural p vote is expose exposed ti but the editor boesa little too far in his statements and deductions he declares that the whole question of woman suffrage depends on the assumed inherent right to yote vote and as lie he shows that there Is no such right under our system he ho argues that the cause ot of women suffrage falls to ther the ground nowr While he ia is perfectly correct in densing denying the claim of the alright is wrong in stating hat bat the question of woman suf suffrage frag 0 depends on that point to prove the unsoundness of the claim of natural right 7 he shows that in connecticut minors minor and foreigners are taxed but have no vote and that a certain property qualification Js required of niale male citizens bulhe buthe he fails tails loshaw to show why these qualifications which empower ei the male citizen to vote hould not equally ein eln empower power the female citizen the qu question estion estian ot 01 inherent right affects one ole bex sex as much as the other it if women have no natural right to vote neither have thel men and if on that account female summia suffrage gb falls to the gro ground u nd so does male kuff suffrage rage and then there is nd no right of suffrage raga left at all ail U 1 A citizen is not necessarily a voter the laws ak ot the united states declare what constitutes a citizen but it is the several states and terri territories stories to prescribe what qualifications those citizens shall have to entitle them to vote and hoid hold office the FIfteen fifteenth ih amendment n to the constitution deci declares ares that the righetto right to vate shall not be de denied nied on account of race color or previous condition of servitude but in in all other respects t the states and territories are free to regulate the elective franchise except c that those who hold hoid holdia IV must b be twenty one years baff of age and citizens of the united states one state may insy require that citizens shall pay a certain amount of tax or hold property to a given value in order to exercise the shiffra suffrage e another may ma establish an educational provision at a third hir bir d a moral qualification one state may provide that only male citizens khall shall voto vote and ana hold office another may include both male and female citizens but the question IS is if a male citizen havink having all air the qualifications lors prescribed by law liw la Is permitted to vote why should not a female citizen with the same bame qualifications qualification a exercise the sa same ine lne privilege tills this ia is called a popular government under it all power jower springs from the people la Is not nob a woman a part p art of 0 f the people if jf joba john may vote in connecticut because he ia Is a cit citizen izen over 21 years of outage sige sike fige and pays taxes why should I 1 not julia E smith who ia Is a citizen 83 8 years jears of age and who also pays t axes taxes have an equal right to vote judging from that ladya abilities natural and acquired she is just as able to cast a vote intelligently as most of bf the male malo citizens of her native tafe taie and i justice a urlce urice speaks as US loudly in her favor fabor as for a male taxpayer seeing that the basis of representation in that state is milde made to be taxation there is it a ma manifest hinest wc weakness akness in A all ali the arguments advanced against woman grage suffrage eu and the ladies have only to take suro sure ground abandon faise false assumptions reject the monstrosities that attach themselves ste to the their thein I 1 r caisse cause frown down the social d de of formers who wh 0 evoke ridicule cu ae and disgust and persevere in a consistent representation of their claim sto ensurd ensure an ultimate recognition of their hights rights and the poll treal liberty to which they are entitled THE B BELL bull PUNCH SYSTEM I 1 THE moffet bell punch system ia is attracting considerable attention and to meet with general favor from those who devote any attention on to measures designed for the public welfare L this system has thead the advantage van tag ob of f putting the |